Resume

allan.fisch@gmail.com


SUMMARY

Film Industry professional with strong background in feature film post production, film history and theory. Detail-oriented team player with extensive knowledge of current and historic film, video and soundtrack formats, film genealogy and technologies. Proven ability to manage large scale and complex projects. Excellent multi-tasker and trouble-shooter. Seventeen years experience working at Hollywood studios.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA 2002-2006
Major Entertainment Corporation with unsurpassed brand recognition.

Research Administrator
Project Manager for feature asset research and management.
• Researched and selected film, video and audio feature elements for DVD Production Group. thus saving several hundred to several thousand of dollars per project.
• Coordinated large-scale foreign language soundtrack projects for library of over 600 animated shorts, television series and feature films.
• Coordinated with archive personnel to determine best quality element from worldwide inventory database of several million elements.
• Developed and maintained two database schedules used by several departments.
• Evaluated existing high-definition videotape masters and generated recommendations regarding suitability for emerging new technologies such as Blu-Ray DVD and internet delivery.


Cinram/POP DVD Center, Santa Monica, CA 1997-2001
Integrated DVD Compression, Authoring and Media Replication Facility.

Executive Producer
Project Manager for DVD titles.
• Team member at time of facility start-up.
• Managed DVD pre-mastering and production.
• Provided recommendations to clients as to asset selection and project design.
• Scheduled and tracked production tasks.
• Supervised facility originated Special Edition DVD projects.
• Billed clients.
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MGM Home Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA 1992-1997
Motion Picture, Television and Home Video Entertainment Company.

Executive Director
Department Head for technical home video mastering and quality control.
• Supervised technical aspect of DVD format launch.
• Supervised film to tape mastering of two hundred feature films including major restorations of the James Bond library and Fiddler on the Roof and THX certified award winning special edition of The Wizard of Oz.
• Coordinated high-profile director/DP approved projects including Raging Bull, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Yentl and The Manchurian Candidate.
• Produced director’s audio commentary and ancillary materials for special edition projects including Norman Jewison, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, John Frankenheimer, Barry Levinson, Mel Brooks and Barry Sonnenfeld.
• Supervised mixing and audio restoration of soundtracks for numerous classic and contemporary feature film projects including Rocky and Singin' in the Rain.
• Supervised staff of four.
• Reported to Sales and Marketing divisions.
• Studio representative to MPAA Anti-Piracy and DVD development committees.


Paramount Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 1990-1992
Major Motion Picture Studio with Feature Film, Television and Syndication Divisions.

Film Librarian
Project manager for home video technical work queue.
• Project Managed Domestic Home Video Production work queue.
• Supervised restoration projects including the major video and audio restorations for White Christmas and the special anniversary edition of The Ten Commandments.
• Motion Picture Editor’s Guild Local 700


MGM/UA Home Video Culver City, CA 1990
Home Video division of Major Motion Picture Studio.

Manager
• Supervised work queue for videocassette and laserdisc duplication.

The Voyager Company/Criterion Collection, Santa Monica, CA 1989-1990
Multi-Media Publishing Company

Office and Production Assistant
• Various office duties, progressing to assistant on laserdisc production tasks.


EDUCATION
BFA Film and Television
New York University, New York, NY
Tisch School of the Arts

AWARDS
Laserdisc Association Awards
Dr. Zhivago, The Ultimate Oz/The Wizard of Oz